Multi-state lawsuits, filed by U.S. state attorneys general (AGs), have become an important method by which state consumer protection laws are enforced. Patterns of participation in these lawsuits vary tremendously across the states, yet little is known about the factors driving this variation. I argue that state AGs are primarily concerned with achieving electoral and policymaking goals. Conse...

this study was carried out to evaluate the ekiti state social security scheme (essss) in nigeria. specifically, the study estimated the food security status of the beneficiaries and non beneficiaries of the scheme, assessed the effect of the social security scheme on households’ food security status, and identified the constraints to the implementation of the scheme in the state. a three stage ...

background: with increasing age, some changes appeared in specifications of vessels which including dimensions and elasticity in their. the changes in parameters such as resistance, inertance and compliance vessels appear and eventually changes in the environmental pulse releases are in circulation. these changes clearly appear in specification of photoplethysmogram particularly in the size and...

Recently, correlated drain and gate current fluctuations have been observed in nano-scaled MOSFETs, indicating that their occurrence is linked to the same defect. One explanation for this observation can be given by the multi-state defect model, which has been developed to describe the hole capture and emission processes involved in the bias temperature instability (BTI). This model relies on a...

Reliability analysis is one of the important constituent parts of elevator safety evaluation. In order to obtain the exact value of fault probability of components in elevator system, by combining fuzzy theory with Bayesian network approach, we proposed a reliability analysis method of multi-state system based on fuzzy Bayesian networks. By expanding the traditional two-state Bayesian network t...

This study examined the influence of socioeconomic variables of farmers on their choice of cassava varieties in Kogi State of Nigeria. A total of 360 cassava farmers were selected through multi-stage random sampling procedure. Data collected through structured questionnaire were analyzed using descriptive statistics, customer-buying behavioral model and dynamic programming model. The results sh...

In the field of hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, the common approach is to focus outcome analyses on time to relapse and death, without assessing the impact of post-transplant interventions. We investigated whether a multi-state model would give insight into the events after transplantation in a cohort of patients who were transplanted using a strategy including scheduled donor lymphocy...

Component-level predictive maintenance schedules are developed to maximize multi-state system lifetime, considering degrading component multi-state behavior. To maximize the system time-to-replacement, the predictive maintenance schedule is based on individual component performance degradation trends, system performance requirements and component maintenance thresholds. This work is an extensio...